Virginia Chapter
National Emergency Number Association
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Virginia
Chapter Officers
President
Hershel
Kreis
(James
City County)
3131 Forge
Road
Toano, VA 23168
(757) 564-2190 - office
hkreis@james-city.va.us
First Vice President
Bernard J. “Buster” Brown
Director
Emergency Mgt.
Danville Emergency Services
427 Patton Street
Danville, VA
24543
(434)
799-6535
brownbj@ci.danville.va.us
Second Vice
President
Allan Weese
(Chesterfield County)
PO Box 40
Chesterfield,VA 23832
(804)
796-7065
Fax: (804) 717-6610
weesea@chesterfield.gov
Secretary
Susan Rorrer
(Nelson
County)
84
Courthouse Square
Lovingston, VA 22949
(434) 263-7120
SRorrer@nelsoncounty.org
Treasurer
Chris Knights
(Intrado
Inc.)
264 Autumn Oaks Lane
Barboursville, VA 22923
(434) 985-6161 - office
chris.knights@intrado.com
Immediate Past President
Denise
Johnson
(Prince George County)
6600 Courthouse Rd.
Prince George, VA
23875
(804)
733-6449 - office
djohnson@princegeorgeva.org
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Officer
Biographies
President: Hershel
Kreis began
working for James
City County
in September of 1990 after serving 9 years in the Navy. He started
working in the Communications
Center in February of
1993. In 1999, he was promoted to Supervisor. He has served on two
national NENA working groups. The first developed the Minimum Standards
for Emergency Telephone Notification Systems Operating Standard. The
second was the Wide Area/Statewide Emergency Notification Systems Operating
Document. He is a member of both APCO and NENA, and has DCJS General
Instructor, VCIN instructor and EMD instructor certifications. He is a
peer member of the Peninsulas EMS Council CISM team. He has been married
to his wife Allyson for 7 years and is the proud father of Justin 17, John 13,
and Emma 5. Hershel is involved in amateur radio and is the current
President of the Williamsburg Area Amateur Radio Club and a member of the
Potomac Valley Radio Club which specializes in radiosports. He is also
involved with his church and is a member of the Gideons.
First Vice President: Bernard J. Brown is
currently the Director of Emergency Management for the City of Danville,
Virginia. His 20+ years in Emergency Services
began in 1984 as a driver for a private ambulance company just outside of Buffalo, New York,
where he was born and raised. “Buster”,
as he is known by friends and colleagues, came up through the ranks – so to
speak. A list of job titles includes
EMT, dispatcher, shift supervisor, and 911 Operations Manager. When working as the 911 Operations Manager in
Greene County, Virginia, Buster implemented EMD and Reverse
911 in the county, and brought a higher-level of state and national training
certifications to the agency staff. Buster has been involved with both NENA and
APCO on both state and national levels.
He is an APCO adjunct instructor, serving on multiple committees
including the state membership committees, as well as chairing the spring 2008
and 2009 Virginia NENA/APCO conference programs. He is a DCJS Instructor and American Heart
Association BLS Instructor. Buster has
lived in Virginia for 5 years and lives in Danville with his wife,
Nancy, and four daughters: Rebecca, Laura, Michelle, and Jessica. His son Adam lives in South
Carolina, and his son Korie lives in New York. They are both pursuing their own
careers in Public Safety.
Second Vice President: Allan Weese is the
Senior Automation Analyst for Chesterfield County Emergency Communications. Though relatively new to public safety,
technology issues are far from new to him. With more than twenty years
experience with various technologies, including 10 years experience as the IT
Manager for a large Mid-Atlantic engineering firm, he have been a part of the
ever-changing cycles within information technologies. He has been a member of
NENA for the past six years.
Secretary: Susan Rorrer
was elected secretary of the Virginia Chapter of NENA in April of 2007. Susan graduated from Lynchburg
College in Virginia in 1993 with a B.S. Degree in
Environmental Science. She began her
career in local government with Nelson County
in 1992 and has been employed by the County for the past 15 years, a portion of
which time was spent managing the initial implementation of the County’s E-911
system. Susan currently serves as the
Information Systems Director for Nelson
County and oversees
E-911, GIS and IT systems operations.
Susan resides in Nelson County
with her husband, Scott, and their
two children, Haley and Zach.
Treasurer: Chris Knights is the current
Treasurer of the Virginia NENA Chapter.
Chris graduated with a degree in Geography from Mary
Washington College
(Fredericksburg, VA) in 1995.
He has since worked in the commercial sector working on Federal, State,
and Local government contracts in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
industry. More recently, Chris spent
over four years at MSAG Data Consultants (Orange,
VA) where he was a regional Sales Manager selling IT solutions and GIS Public
Safety software to PSAPs and other local/state government agencies. Chris is currently employed at Intrado as an
Account Executive selling Next Generation 9-1-1 solutions to the Public Safety
industry. Chris has thorough experience
in high-tech sales and consulting with Public Safety agencies on 9-1-1
technology, including Wireless, VoIP, GIS, and 9-1-1 Call-handling. In addition, Chris currently holds a
Governor-appointed position on the Virginia Geographic Information Network
(VGIN) Advisory Board. Chris has been a Virginia resident for 16 years and resides in Greene County
with his wife, Erica, and their three children, Lindsay, Jared, and Carson.
Immediate Past President: Denise P. Johnson began her career
with the Hopewell Bureau of Police in 1989 as communications officer. In 2002
she was hired as the Communications Manager for Dinwiddie County.
In 2004 she was hired with L. Robert Kimball & Associates as a
telecommunications specialist. In October of 2005 she was hired as the PSAP
Manager for Prince George
County where she is
currently employed. She has been active on various NENA conference committees.
Throughout her career she has been a communications officer, training officer,
instructor with the Department of Criminal Justice, EMD instructor and is also
an EMT. While with local government she has been involved with two PSAP
construction projects. Both of these projects have included building a new
PSAP, complete radio replacement, new CAD, phone equipment and managing up to
19 employees. While with Kimball and Associates she worked on a number of
different building projects, staffing studies and assessments. She has enjoyed
working with the PSAP’s across the state and hopes to continue that
relationship as a NENA officer. She is married to Kevin Johnson who is a police
officer for the City of Hopewell.
She has 5 children, Ariel 16, Stepsons Kevin Jr. 21, and Brian 12 and two
stepdaughters Lindsay 19 and Katie 16.
Committees
2010 Spring Conference Committee – TBA
Membership – TBA
By-Laws Review – TBA